Soul of Burning Steel

"Nice idea!"

Regarding Joshua's idea, Yi Zhe opened his eyes wide, and the dwarf god nodded in appreciation.

In his opinion, this special world structure designed by Joshua can accelerate the conversion and accumulation of extraordinary power to the greatest extent, and can even be used as an example on various demiplanes, where the intelligent life can be completely replaced Turning into an ordinary Warcraft is nothing more than a little less efficiency, and the biggest use of this design is to speed up the advancement speed from the demiplane to the world.

Although as a god, He does not need this kind of technology, but as long as it is progress, whether it is technology or personal strength, Yi Zhe will agree and support it.

As for the fate of Joshua's body, it has been decided now. According to the calculation of the God of Wisdom and Choice, the initial formation of the creation maelstrom will take more than a year, even at the fastest speed. The follow-up reinforcement and recovery time will be longer, that is to say, there is still about a year of safe time for Joshua to draw strength comfortably in the maelstrom of creation, and after that, the loss outweighs the gain due to resisting the pressure of time and space.

But one year is enough time, the steel particles and authority that a warrior can absorb every day is better than wandering in the void for a year.

And just as Yi Zhe chatted with Joshua for a few more words, and was about to leave, violet and white divine light flashed, and the God of Joy, Sorrow and Life descended into the warrior's world at the same time for some reason.

"Radcliffe..."

Yuesai, who appeared in the form of an elf lady, the first thing she did after she arrived was to seriously look up and down at the current Joshua. He frowned slightly, as if he had noticed something, but stopped for a moment before he wanted to speak Finally, she shook her head: "Forget it... I just want to say, if you need any help, you can feel free to tell us."

After finishing speaking, he turned into a divine light again and left in a hurry. The God of Life who came with him also looked at Joshua for a moment, and then looked at the nine worlds of empty islands. After he nodded slightly, he also left quickly, not knowing why he came here.

Soon, following Yi Zhe's departure, the divine light of the Six Gods circled the silver world and then flew away from the extremely dark abyss. Unlike Joshua, they, who cannot absorb the power of steel, already feel uncomfortable in the creation vortex, and need to expend divine power all the time to ensure that they are not repelled.

"..."

After confirming that the six gods had completely left, Joshua maintained the original posture, and the humanoid hub stayed in the center of the star, not moving for a long time.

At this time, the warrior seemed to be suspended by time. Not only was his entire body still, but even the silver sun at the center of the world temporarily stopped surging and glowing. The energy circulation was interrupted, and the whole world immediately fell into complete chaos The darkness, the power that controlled the rotation and alternation of the nine empty islands also disappeared, and everything gradually fell into stagnation and silence.

"……well."

After standing still for a long time, I could hear a faint sigh coming from the darkness.

At this time, two red spots of red light appeared in the center of the darkness.

As the red light lit up, the silver sun also regained its light, and the world whose cycle was interrupted gradually restarted, just like the factory that had a sudden power failure before, started to operate again.

And Joshua, who finally regained some mobility, looked down at his hands, and narrowed his eyes slightly, as if trying to cover up the red divine light surging from the depths of his pupils.

"It's really not the time for them to come."

After a while, Joshua raised his trembling hand and pressed his forehead. The soldier murmured to himself, with a hint of self-mockery in his voice: "Use the most blunt tone and way of speaking to shorten the communication as much as possible." The time... But even so, it was still too long, and it almost revealed itself."

Having said that, the avatar of the warrior figure slowly put down his hand, and it was such a simple action that the avatar suddenly disappeared for a moment as if the TV signal was poorly connected—although he reappeared immediately afterwards, it was obvious that In some subtle parts, this re-condensed incarnation can no longer be controlled, and there are big flaws in the structure, just like a 3D model that has been molded.

"I... still too arrogant..."

As if wanting to wake up, Joshua shook his head vigorously, but this action could not make him more awake. In the confusion, he could only smile wryly: "The resentment and despair carried by the evil god of death... I am alone Bearing it alone...the burden is still too heavy."

Not long ago, in the final battle against the evil god of death, Joshua used the runes of his own world to create a weapon like a stream of light with electromagnetic waves.

This weapon composed of pure light does not have any material lethality, but because it carries the special power of steel, it can extract information at an extremely fast speed for transmission. In other words, it is a special optical cable That way, it's not so much a weapon as some kind of high-level link transmitter.

This kind of ray weapon is useless against superpowers like Fatlolv who have mastered the power of the world, or against out-of-control magical mesoscopic agents like Black Mist, but if this weapon is used On the Cthulhu, it will have a miraculous effect—it can break down the strongest barrier of chaos in the Cthulhu, and directly shatter the Cthulhu's core composed of memory and soul. It can be said to be a special artifact for the Cthulhu.

And if it is to deal with the condensed embryos of the evil god, the newborn body of the evil god of death, this weapon is even more terrifying. Its mere existence can pull away the endless memories in the chaos, and make the condensed chaotic stars and clumps , turned into insignificant chaotic dust, turning one thousand and ten thousand equally into ten thousand ones.

Of course, such a special anti-evil god weapon also has a disadvantage.

That is a blow to the user's spirit.

Whenever Joshua shatters a piece of chaotic clot with the weapon of light, the memory of a destroyed world will be entered into the obelisk in the world through the transfer station of 'Joshua himself'.

Every shot, every attack will bring a huge burden to Joshua's thinking, but since the warrior has no soul, he does not need to bear the injury of the soul, and all his corresponding damages are jointly borne by the collective calculation matrix in the world ——Just to record the information of thousands of civilizations, the memory matrix has been reborn and destroyed hundreds of times, which is equivalent to the soul of an ordinary strong being broken hundreds of times.

Killing one thousand enemies, self-damage 800—or even self-damage 2,000, this kind of fighting method can only be used by Joshua, and no matter who the others are, as long as they use it once, their souls will be severely injured.

And in the end, the eruption of the giant ax of light cut open the entire extremely dark abyss, which meant that endless sad memories flooded into the warrior's mind at the same time, trying to assimilate him into a new evil god.

Even Joshua is absolutely impossible to resist this torrent of thinking, so he can only use one method to strengthen his spirit, and it is extremely difficult to resist this kind of soulless person, which is enough to change the physical structure of reality. attack.

That is divinity.

Through awakening and strengthening the divinity that he had already controlled, Joshua forcibly endured the most dangerous wave of spiritual surges, and forcibly crushed the final counterattack of the embryo of the evil god of death—but this was not the case. It means that the danger has passed, on the contrary, the dangerous moment has just begun.

Compared with the chaotic power that can be slowly dissipated through time and helpers, the overly powerful divinity is the fundamental reason why Joshua's thinking begins to go wrong, and because of the characteristics of the divinity, Joshua can't even find it. Seeing a solution, he could only use his own mental strength to kill and suppress the other party in a stupid way - this incident led to Joshua's current bad state.

Today's fighters are actually just like those heroic souls he has just awakened, his whole mind is in a muddle, only when he is shaping the world and resurrecting the heroic souls, he is a little bit normal. The appearance of the six gods made him briefly After waking up for a moment, he realized his current situation.

"If this continues...whether I am swallowed up by the destructive memory left by the evil god of death, or by the divinity pressing down on my own will, I will no longer be me..."

Thinking of this, Joshua immediately recalled the sudden arrival and departure of Yue Sorrow and the God of Life - the other party's demeanor obviously saw something, it seemed that he had indeed discovered something, which was not surprising. As gods, they have always been very sensitive to such things.

Thinking of this, the soldier couldn't help recalling what Yue Ai said not long ago, that after the sages returned from the dark abyss, they were very different from the original.

Is there any similarity between his state now and the sage then?

"Holy Light...Weapon of Light...Sages..."

Closing his eyes, Joshua's human form slowly disintegrated in the silver stars - he had no energy left to keep a human form communication terminal - at this moment, the warrior's will began to diverge: "Ha, a sage can never be like me , so arrogant, as a single person, bear the despair of the entire abyss and evil gods at that time..."

perhaps.

perhaps.

Joshua stopped thinking about this.

All thinking threads began to converge and concentrate, and all computing power was used to suppress the increasingly turbulent memory of the desperate world and the increasingly powerful battle divinity. It can be seen that among the silvery stars, there is a crimson glow flowing, like bloody lightning that shuttles through the silvery clouds.

Of course, the sequelae after the battle were serious.

But if Joshua were to choose again, he would still do it.

No one knows whether the Cthulhu of Death will suddenly reorganize in the next moment, causing everyone's sacrifices and efforts to fall short. It is very difficult to break the defense.

In the deepest part of the Darkest Abyss, chaos occupies everything. If it weren't for the blessings of the gods and the boundless divine power, Joshua wouldn't even be able to take action. If he didn't use the weapon of light, he would have become the evil god of death long ago. Condensing the core, dissipating self-awareness, and even turning into an evil god to destroy many worlds such as the Mycroft world.

Compared with this future possibility, the current situation is nothing more than a little troublesome.

At the bottom of the great vortex of creation, six colors of divine light shone, and a silver star circulated in the world, but gradually dimmed.

A long time passed.

During the period, there were several fluctuations of space-time magic, or the void warships came around, and looked at it from a distance for a while, and many people broke through the increasingly strong repulsive force of the creation vortex, just to see the silver world.

They were either worried, troubled, full of confidence, or just wanted to watch the excitement... But several months have passed, and the end of 840 years of Starfall has passed, and the silver star still has not changed, it is still bleak look.

until one day.

Mycroft world time, Starfall 841, January 20th.

An ordinary and ordinary day without anyone visiting, only silver stars slowly rotating in the center of the vortex.

The shell of the world finally regained some light.

The existence hidden in it to recuperate is gradually waking up.

Inside the silver world, at the center of the core star, Joshua's incarnation condensed again, and this time the incarnation was perfect without any strange flaws.

"Has half a year passed...Although it is said that the automatic collection program and boot program have been set up before hibernation, a lot of time for testing is still wasted."

Looking at his palm with a calm face, Joshua clenched his fist and then let go. He raised his head, looked at the many heroic souls who were following the guide program in the sky island, and relearned knowledge, then nodded: "At least half a year is left. Time, it's not too late... But before that, I should go back, otherwise they must be worried."

In the center of the brightest star, the warrior looks around his world alone. His face is calm, but the invisible coercion surges, making those who look directly at it feel like they are facing a furious god. It can be seen that around the silver star, the nine empty islands are rotating like nine planets. Civilized heroic souls who have begun to communicate and cooperate gradually, as well as many flying silver fairies, have made this originally silent world more interesting. A little vitality.

Looking at this scene, Joshua's cold eyes, which were still a little like a machine, gradually softened. After a moment of silence, he whispered to himself: "...There are still some things that need to be done."

The Lord of the World said so, and the entire star began to roar and vibrate.

The original extremely dark abyss is now a great vortex of creation, and the torrent of black and white is still constantly colliding and rotating.

The wreckage of the world accumulated for thousands of years, mixed with the power of the magic tide tilted from the great vortex of the void, turned into a torrent capable of crushing everything, grinding everything into the tiniest steel particles.

But in the center of this extremely dangerous vortex, a slightly dim silver star floats at the bottom of the vortex, seemingly completely unaffected by the surrounding environment, just like that firmly embedded in the center of the most intense undercurrent, enduring The scouring of endless material torrents.

But now, this silver star, which has been scoured for half a year, suddenly has some changes.

It can be seen that several depressions suddenly appeared on the surface of the silver world that was originally absolutely smooth—these depressions quickly formed holes that penetrated into the interior of the world one after another, and a large number of cylindrical particles that seemed to be made of steel spewed out of it, Into the maelstrom of creation.

Although these cylindrical particles are particles, they are only for the creation vortex. In terms of cancellation, each steel cylinder is one meter high, and its texture is extremely hard, even if it is ground by the creation vortex. It is also impossible to shatter its surface, and can only carry it forward together.

Three hundred and sixty depressions were opened in the silver world, each of which was a steel cylinder that spewed towards the creation vortex for about five minutes. From a distance, it seemed that the silver world was being extremely cold and dry. Breathing in the air, a large amount of white water mist sprayed out from the gap, and then dissipated in the vortex.

After doing all this, the silver world fell into silence again—but it was different from before.

Because there was a ray of light that broke away from the pole of the world, he dragged the long band of light, and quickly left towards the normal world galaxy beyond the vortex.

...

Starfall 841, January 20th, Moldavian Territory in the Northland, Lord's Mansion in the Inner City.

The afternoon sunlight passed through the thick tempered glass and fell on the dark brown desk. The dust fluttered in the sunlight, and the heated air continued to rise—and along with the dust, there was a certain wing. Miss Man's magic projection.

In the quiet, cool-colored study room, the Level 7 artificial intelligence that was supposed to control the master server of the magic net was floating on the ceiling of someone's study room, as if thinking about something.

It can be seen that there are a lot of books in the study room that no one has visited for a long time, some of which are heavy history books, such as "The Origin of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms in the Western Mountains" and "The Origin of the Northern Royal Family". It is a popular novel that has become popular recently, such as "Dimensional Expedition: Exploitation of Other Worlds", "Small World: Endless Fun" and so on.

Of course, most of them are classics about extraordinary power. It can also be found that there are a large number of manuscripts on the manuscript paper at the edge of the desk, which seem to be all kinds of new and special methods of cultivating extraordinary power , the author seems to have taken into account the level of the reader, deliberately writing very easy to understand.

Everything is perfect, except that the handwriting on the manuscript paper looks too stiff and ugly, which is a bit of a minus.

Miss Yiren just watched all this purely, her eyes drifted away, and her mind seemed to have been wandering away.

"What's the matter, number three?"

Suddenly, a familiar deep male voice suddenly appeared at the door.

This too abrupt voice obviously frightened the artificial intelligence who was in a daze, causing her projection to disappear for a moment, and then panicked to re-condense.

And at this moment, a man opened the door and walked into the study. He raised his head and looked at the unknown where No. 3 was. Joshua asked calmly, "Did something happen?"

"……No."

Opening her eyes wide, No. 3 stared at the man at the door. She wanted to say something, such as Hotaru and Rin's hard work recently, Hei's hard training recently, and Xiaoguang getting bigger... She thought It is said that there is a new batch of students graduating from the College of Winterhold. The soldiers' students have now become the backbone of the Empire's Alien Exploration Department. And because the whole world has suppressed the chaos of the alien world before, many old acquaintances are even stronger. further.

She has a lot to say.

But in the end, it only became a plain sentence.

"Nothing happened here."

Slowly descending from the position on the ceiling, No. 3 replied with a smile: "I was just waiting for you to come back."

"ah."

Joshua Van Radcliffe replied in this way. Although his tone was blunt and seemed a bit mechanical, he still smiled and said, "I'm back."

There is one more today